RE: Do you think Muslims will dominate the world again like they used before?
December 30, 2016 at 9:50 am
(December 30, 2016 at 9:33 am)Tonus Wrote: As Sam Harris has pointed out, if the number of dangerous radicalized followers of Islam is only 1% of the whole, that would still be around 15,000,000 people.
They may have numbers, but if you watched what happened when radicalized Muslims tried to take violent action against non-Muslim nations (aka September 11), the end result was heavily against them. We pretty much overthrew the government they had in Afghanistan because of that attack and their leadership are pretty much gone. I don't see them being an especially big threat, in all honesty. I think the only real worry is fanatics picking us to death, piece by piece, with small scale attacks; the kind we really aren't paying too much attention to (but we'll pay a lot of attention to them when/if they hurt or even threaten wealthy or powerful people).
In reality, I think a "takeover" by moderate Muslims is possible and it wouldn't be entirely a bad thing. A stable democracy, with freedom of religion and freedom of speech, with a largely secular government, valuing education (especially scientific and/or business education) over dogma, where the majority of the population just happens to be Muslim.... other than having difficulty finding bacon in grocery stores, I don't see how this would be all that different for me from what we have now.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama